Canalina wrote:It seems illogic that he could have taken that medicinal but it seems (to me) even more illogic that someone in WADA could have dropped it in its urine.An italian newspaper wrote that Meldonium has almost no benefit for a male athlete but that it improves the general well-being and the sexual performance. Maybe he took the meldonium for non-sport use. It seems stupid before an event controlled by the anti-doping agency, I know, but as I said every alternative theory seems even more unlikely

Meldonius is not doping!

WADA is the organization of deceitful bastards defending the countries of West and destroying their competitors!

Therefore Meldonius made in Russia is banned (before this 40 years it was allowed), and the western analog - Сarnitine is allowed!

Therefore the use of doping to Western athletes with "asthma" and other deadly diseases is permited and Russia is disqualified for harmles Meldonius!

Maybe because the WADA presidents were a Canadian , Australian and now Englishman?

A representative of Russia is not at all?

A single application of Meldonium was found.He before or during the Olympics ate one tablet.Its useles!What for ?

What would Russia would not be restored in rights after this Olympiad. And to whom it was profitable i know!

I'm not an expert of medicinals (I'm a total ignorant about) so I can't answer properly. I don't know if really WADA permits "western" medicinals homologue to meldonium while excluding meldonium. It could be, I know that sometime governments and pharmacy companies make dirty moves like this. Of course this would be completely wrong.Anyway, I don't think meldonium is innocuous; according to wikipedia it helps the blood flow in the body and I think it's not a case if so many russian athletes used Meldonium because they casually had some illness which needs it. I know, also the 70% italian cyclists have a form of asthma which casually need some medicines that eventually improve the sport performance; but the faults of western athletes don't justify the faults of eastern athletes.I just can't think that someone falsified the curling athlete anti-doping test, I can't think that someone ruins the life of a man just to keep Russia far from the Games. This is not Ken Follett, this is life; people are not so mean (usually). I think that athlete really took meldonium, maybe not for sport reasons

I agree, the largely spread use of Ventolin in sports requiring long efforts is a shame. In Italy too it is very used; we have a bad bad tradition of doping in sports like cycling and cross-country ski, even if in the last ten years the situation has gone clearly improving thanks to a more serious anti-doping effort. By the way, it was never State doping; simply the State (and we fans) chose to close both the eyes to not see the doping problem.Anyway it seems to me that the large use of Ventolin is homologue to the one of Meldonium in the East. This is an interesting article I found on the first page of a google search

According to it17% of russian athletes use Meldonium53% of russian rugbymen use Meldonium

The scientists mentioned by the article admit that there are not strong proofs of athletic benefits by Meldonium and that they have banned it just because the fact that so many russian athletes use it is suspect

Alpine ski women kombi podium, with silver, gold and bronze from the left. Few spectators as usual, let's hope the Beijing Games will have bigger crowds and a bit more difficult slopes. Need to wait four years to the next Winter Olympics, what sadness

Russia lost long ago. Our officials did not object when meldonium recognized "prohibited substancie".It is from this moment.Now instead of meldonium our athletes drink a similar in propertes carnitine. But already Western manufacturs ...

Notes to last year’s document suggest that the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) was allocated $91.6 million (£66.2 million/€74.7 million) of TOP programme revenue in 2017, compared with $77.9 million (£56.3 million/€63.6 million) for other National Olympic Committees (NOCs).

The accounts explain that the IOC has "contracted a loan" up to a maximum CHF120 million ($127.7 milliom/£92.4 million/€104.3 million) to finance construction of its new headquarters.

Vova12 wrote:Notes to last year’s document suggest that the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) was allocated $91.6 million (£66.2 million/€74.7 million) of TOP programme revenue in 2017, compared with $77.9 million (£56.3 million/€63.6 million) for other National Olympic Committees (NOCs).

I mean the USA won 121 (46/37/38) medals in Rio which is nearly more than double the amount that GB, China and Russia (2nd, 3rd, 4th) won.

Also, and I am only taking a wild guess here, could it be, that the USA brought in the most tv revenue, so they get a larger share?

How to grow rugby worldwide?Look at the world ranking in July. Teams ranked 1-10 have to play one team from 11-20 (they don't play in a regular competition) away the next year. 11-20 play 21-30 away and so on. Yes, it really is that simple.

I mean the USA won 121 (46/37/38) medals in Rio which is nearly more than double the amount that GB, China and Russia (2nd, 3rd, 4th) won.

Also, and I am only taking a wild guess here, could it be, that the USA brought in the most tv revenue, so they get a larger share?

Russia did not have many athletes disqualified because of lying bastard Rodchenkov. In adition it is very diffikult with teams that have "deadly sick people" in their composition and are actually supported by WADA and IOC.

By the way, do not you know that the IOC is a non-profit organization?

No ?

And you know that a non-profit organization is an organization that does not have profit as its main goal and does not distribute the profits among the participants. ...

For my taste, one collateral problem of the Winter Olympics (and of the Summer's too, probably) is the excessive amount of races. More medals you give, less value every medal is going to have. In Sochi they distributed 97 gold medals and that number was already too large to me; now I read that in PyeongChang the gold medals will be 102. Every new edition some sport federations obtains a new race: "we have the men's relay and the women's relay, why don't organize also a mixed relay?"; "we have the 5 km classical skiing and the 10 km free skiing, why don't organize also a 7.5 km mixed skiing?" and so on...If you want to create new races, fantasy has not limits: relais, mixed races, new distances, team races in individual sports... you could easily go up to 500 events in Winter Games if you wanted. But there must be a limit and for my taste that limit has been already passed.Some races as the team event in Alpine Ski have just no sense for me

Armchair Fan wrote:Press is mostly mourning the policeman. Initially Russian hooligans were blamed, but when it came clear he was killed by Athletic ultras a big debate on whether clubs should control their ultras...

To be honest the fans of "Spartac" - not a gift, but the Basqes attacked first ...